12/27/2022 0 Comments Osx truecrypt alternative![]() ![]() Such a critical security component adopted by so many people that have no reason at all to trust a group of anonymous devs, just the occasional story where some local authorities couldn't break the TC volume. I'm normally not the conspiracy type of person, the people behind TC have just interested me long before they disbanded. But.no leaks from the devs on what actually happened? Plus they had legit certificate signing, so there's that paper trail somewhere but no one's linked anyone to it? They accepted donations too, so there's a money trail as well. That's what makes the most sense to me, too. I can't think of any likely scenarios to fit the sudden cessation of development in the way it happened except for the devs suddenly being aware of/involved with state level entities expressing an undesired interest. ![]() ![]() The speculation is going to stick in the back of my head for a long time. Especially their warning about how it's no longer secure, yet the audit's done and has a pretty clean bill of health. I still wish we knew what happened to the dev team, who they were, and the real reason they disappeared so suddenly. The dev has put a lot of effort into improvements since the program was forked, and personally I have found it to be stable in both Windows and Linux. Veracrypt seems to be the most mature drop-in replacement for Truecrypt at this point. Listed a bunch of alternatives currently out there (note it was from 2014, so some new ones may be around since then.) I had to list Veracrypt further down the thread. This is an old thread I started around the same topic. BitLocker on Windows, FileVault on OS X, and one of the included tools in various distributions of Linux.That there are forks of TrueCrypt (I assume this is what VeraCrypt is), is a good sign that there will be more cross-platform tools available in the near future. Most other advice has been to use a platform-specific solution, i.e. The long-time state of affairs has been that TrueCrypt was the only widely available cross-platform tool for doing what it does. Not sure if it's available on Ars, but a quick Google search drums up plenty of comparisons. That's a good question, can Ars do a roundup of similar cross-platform tools that have sprung up since TrueCrypt stopped being developed? I'm just hearing about VeraCrypt now, and it sounds like it'd be a good idea to a survey of possible tools. ![]()
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